Happy Valentines day to all Chebfun2 users! Copy and paste this M-file into your Matlab to watch the love movie.

d = [0 1 0 4*pi];
t = chebfun2(@(t,th) t, d);
th = chebfun2(@(t,th) th, d);

Parametric surface:

X = sin(pi*t).*cos(th/2);
Y = 0.7*sin(pi*t).*sin(th/2);
Z = (t-1).*(-49+50*t+30*t.*cos(th)+cos(2*th))./(-25+(cos(th)).^2);

Color scheme:

C = sin(10*X).*cos((Y-.1).^2)+(Z+1);

% Message:
S = scribble('Happy Valentines Day!');

Generate surface:

surf(X, Y, Z, C), hold on
% Add text:
plot3(1.1*cos(2.5*real(S+1)), 0.8*sin(real(2.5*(S+1))),...
    1.5*imag(S)-1.05, 'k', 'jumpline', '', 'linewidth', 2), hold off
% Make it pretty:
axis tight off image
colormap hot
set(gcf, 'color', 'w')
view(180, 6)

% Rotate:
% M = [];
TA = linspace(-1.25, 3, 500);
for ta = TA
    view(180*ta, 6)
    axis([-1.1 1.1 -1.1 1.1 -2 .1333])
    drawnow
%     M = [M getframe()];
end

If you would like to save this love movie to a GIF file then uncomment the lines below (and the lines beginning M = ...) and run the example.

% % Save to .gif:
% [ignored, idx] = min(abs(TA-.75));
% for j = 1:idx-1
%     im = frame2im(M(j));
%     [imind, cm] = rgb2ind(im, 16);
%     if ( j == 1 )
%         imwrite(imind, cm, 'ValentinesDay.gif', 'gif', ...
%             'Loopcount', inf, 'DelayTime', 1e-5);
%     else
%         imwrite(imind, cm, 'ValentinesDay.gif', 'gif', ...
%             'WriteMode', 'append', 'DelayTime', 1e-5);
%     end
% end

Reference

1. Anonymous, 14th February 2013, Chebfun Example fun/ValentinesDay